Veteran Fukuda elected LDP chief to be Japan's new leader after Abe

Veteran Fukuda elected LDP chief to be Japan's new leader after Abe

TOKYO, Japan - Yasuo Fukuda (L), who ran in a House of Representatives election in February 1990, stands with his wife Kiyoko (right) as his father Takeo Fukuda (C) speaks at a party of supporters in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, in a photo taken in FEbruary that year. The former chief Cabinet secretary won the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election on Sept. 23 to succeed embattled Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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